-The Hindu Business Line Agreement between Viatris, MedAccess and TBA to slash cost by 34 per cent on pretomanid A new agreement among drugmaker Viatris, MedAccess, and TB Alliance looks to reduce the price of pretomanid, a drug used to treat multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, by 34 per cent. The agreement will help expand access to this critical new treatment in more than 140 countries, including those with the highest TB burden, said a joint...
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After measles, experts worry typhoid could pose the next health challenge as India delays vaccine -Tabassum Barnagarwala
-Scroll.in The country already has a high typhoid burden and increasing drug resistance could led to a rise in treatment cost and recovery time. The measles outbreak in Mumbai, followed by Ranchi, Ahmedabad and Malappuram over the past month has drawn attention to the large number of unvaccinated children. Over 16,000 suspected cases have been recorded in India. Of the 20 children who have died of measles since October 26 in the...
More »Open Field Tests of GM Mustard Need to be Conducted with Utmost Precaution: AIPSN
-The Hindu “It would have been better if seed production trials take place in a controlled rather than in an open environment so as to assess various risks before conducting open field trials,” read a statement by the AIPSN. Following the go-ahead for production and field testing of hybrid seeds of genetically modified (GM) mustard, All-India Peoples Science Network (AIPSN) has demanded that the open field tests, if any, be conducted with...
More »India to soon suffer heatwaves that break human survivability limit: World Bank report -Sayantani Biswas
-Livemint.com A report shows that lost labor from rising heat and humidity could put up to 4.5% of India's GDP &NDAsh;approximately $150-250 billion &NDAsh; at risk by the end of this decade. A report by World Bank has a ominous warning for India and it only spells doom, as the report has stated that India will soon be one of the first countries that will experience severe heatwaves that will break the...
More »Medical professionals oppose govt’s initiative to introduce GM mustard -Karam Prakash
-The Tribune They view the release of the GM crop as a ‘dangerous’ exercise New Delhi: After farmers and environmentalists, medical professionals are the next to oppose the environmental clearance of the genetically-modified (GM) GM mustard &NDAsh; DMH 11. The medical professionals have claimed that their opposition to the GM crop has scientific underpinning. Demanding a complete ban, as many as 111 specialist doctors in the country have urged PM Modi to immediately ‘nullify’...
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